Judge, 1903-06-13 · page 16 of 16
Judge — June 13, 1903 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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**Top cartoon ("Very Evident"):** Features Irish characters (identifiable by dialect spelling and names like Keegan and Costigan) discussing a dream. The joke turns on marital misery—Keegan dreamed he went to "the bad place" (hell) but was glad to wake up, because being married is apparently worse than damnation. It's a crude joke about marriage as a man's punishment. **Bottom cartoon ("The Proper Heading"):** Mocks Philadelphia politics and corruption. A newspaper editor receives tips about yet another politician caught stealing from the city. The satirical "correction" suggests the headline should read "Another ghoul caught robbing the dead"—implying Philadelphia politicians are so corrupt and their theft so routine that they're essentially desecrating the city itself. It's commentary on systemic political corruption as normal practice.
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VERY EVIDENT. Kezoan—" Ol dreamed lasht noight shot Oh ata wint to th’ bad place."* Cosniaan—* Worn't ye glad whin ye woke u Keeaan-"Glad, Costigan? ‘Shure, i's virry Ivident yo are not a married man, Costigan!" ont 1909 ay JUOGE COMPANY OF maw YORK Sackertd Widainn Lhe B Pg Co New York THE PROPER HEADING. Suv-eorron—"' Here's another Philadelphia politician caught robbing the clty.”” Boron" Put t under the heading, * Another ghoul caught robbing the dead”